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February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in theGregorian calendar.There are 312 days remaining until the end of the year(313 inleap years).

Events

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Up to 1900

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1281–Martin IV becomesPope.
1288–Nicholas IV becomesPope.
1371–Robert II of Scotland becomesKing, starting theStuart Dynasty.
1494– KingCharles VIII of France entersNaples to claim the city's throne.
1632–Galileo'sDialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1651– St. Peter'sFlood: Astorm surge floods theFrisian coast in present–dayGermany and theNetherlands, killing about 15,000 people.
1744– TheBattle of Toulon begins.
1784–William Herschel discovers the spiralgalaxyNGC 3521.
1797– The last invasion of theGreat Britain begins when a force of 4,000 French troops lands inFishguard,Pembrokeshire,Wales. They surrender two days later.
1819– By theAdams–Onís Treaty,Spain soldFlorida to theUnited States for five millionU.S. dollars.
1847–Mexican-American War: TheBattle of Buena Vista – 5,000American troops drive off 15,000Mexican.
1848– The FrenchRevolution of1848 begins, later leading to the creation of theFrench Second Republic.
1855– ThePennsylvania State University is founded.
1856– TheRepublican Party opens its first national meeting inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1857– TheBavarian Weisswurst sausage is allegedly invented inMunich.
1862–Jefferson Davis is inaugurated asPresident of theConfederate States of America inRichmond, Virginia.
1865–Tennessee adopts a newconstitution that abolishesslavery.
1872– TheProhibition Party holds its first national convention inColumbus, Ohio, withJames Black as its nominee forPresident of the United States.
1876–Johns Hopkins University is founded inBaltimore, Maryland.
1879– InUtica, New York,Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10–cent Woolworth stores.
1889–President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admittingNorth Dakota,South Dakota,Montana andWashington asU.S. states.
1890– The Walmut GroveDam breaks inArizona, causing aflood that kills between 50 and 150 people.
1899–Filipino forces led byGeneral Antonio Luna launch counter–attacks for the first time, against American forces in thePhilippine-American War, though fail to retakeManila.

1901– 2000

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1901– A Pacificmail steamer sinks in Golden Gate Harbor, killing 128 people.
1904–UK recognises theSouth Orkney Islands as part ofArgentina, in1908 claims them again.
1915–Germany institutesunrestricted submarine warfare.
1920– InEmeryville, California, the firstdog race track to employ an imitationrabbit opens.
1923– TheUnited States begins the first transcontinentalair mail route.
1923–Barcelona (Catalonia):Albert Einstein visits the city, invited by the scientistEsteban Terradas i Illa, as part of the monografics course of High Studies and Exchange organized by theMancomunitat de Catalunya and conducted byRafael de Campalans.
1924–Calvin Coolidge becomes the firstPresident of the United States to deliver aradio broadcast from theWhite House.
1940– Then–four–year–oldTenzin Gyatso is enthroned as the 14thDalai Lama.
1942–World War II:President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders GeneralDouglas MacArthur out of thePhilippines as American defense collapses.
1943– Members ofWhite Rose are executed inNazi Germany.
1944–World War II: Americanaircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch cities ofNijmegen,Arnhem,Enschede andDeventer, killing 800 in Nijmegen alone.
1948– TheCommunist Revolution begins inCzechoslovakia.
1949–Grady the Cow, a 1,200–pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm inYukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention.
1956–Elvis Presley enters the music charts for the first time, with "Heartbreak Hotel".
1957–South Vietnamese leaderNgo Dinh Diem survives a Communist shooting assassination attempt inBan Me Thuot.
1958–Egypt andSyria join to form theUnited Arab Republic.
1959–Lee Petty wins the firstDaytona 500.
1960– A mining accident inZwickau,East Germany kills 123 people.
1969–Barbara Jo Rubin wins aUnited States thoroughbredhorse race making history as the first woman to do so.
1972– The OfficialIRA detonates a car bomb inAldershot Barracks, killing 7 people.
1973–Cold War: FollowingPresident Richard Nixon's visit toChina, theUnited States and thePeople's Republic of China agree to establish liaison offices.
1974– The Organisation of theIslamic Conference summit begins inLahore,Pakistan andBangladesh is recognized byIslamabad Officials.
1979– Independence ofSaint Lucia from theUnited Kingdom.
1980– TheUnited States men'sice hockey team defeats theSoviet Union team at the1980 Winter Olympic Games in an upset dubbed the "Miracle on Ice".
1986– The People PowerRevolution in thePhilippines begins.
1987– The firstAirbus A320 lifts off.
1994–Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by theUnited States Department of Justice with spying for theSoviet Union.
1997– InRoslin,Scotland, scientists announce that an adultsheep namedDolly had been successfullycloned.

From 2001

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2002– AMH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean near thePhilippines, killing all 10 aboard.
2004–Ralph Nader announces his intention to run as an independent candidate forPresident of the United States.
2005– Anearthquake in Sarand,Iran, kills 420 people.
2006– The Al–AskariShrine inSamarra,Iraq, aShi'ite Holy Site, is badly damaged in abomb attack.
2009–Slumdog Millionaire is the most successful movie at the81st Academy Awards.
2011–2011 Canterbury earthquake: A magnitude 6.3earthquake hitsChristchurch, New Zealand, causing major damage and more than 180 deaths. Among the collapsed buildings is the spire of Christchurchcathedral.
2012– Atrain crash inBuenos Aires,Argentina, kills 51 people.
2014–Matteo Renzi is sworn in asPrime Minister of Italy, making him the youngest holder of this office, at age 39.
2014– InUkraine,parliament votes to removePresident Viktor Yanukovych from power and to install a caretaker government. Yanukovych is reported to have fled to Eastern Ukraine, while formerPrime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is released fromprison.
2015– A ferry capsizes inBangladesh, killing at least 70 people.
2015– The 87thAcademy Awards are held. Among the winners areJulianne Moore (Best Actress) andEddie Redmayne (Best Actor), for playingStephen Hawking inThe Theory of Everything.
2017– Scientists announce the discovery of sevenplanets of similar size toEarth orbiting around the dwarf star "TRAPPIST-1".

Births

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Up to 1850

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1300 BC–Ramesses II, Egyptianpharaoh (d.1213 BC)
1403– KingCharles VII of France (d.1461)
1440–Ladislaus the Posthumous,King ofHungary andBohemia (d.1470)
1500–Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italiancardinal (d.1564)
1514–Tahmasp I, Persianshah (d.1576)
1631–Peder Syv, Danishphilologist, folklorist and priest (d.1702)
1645–Johann Ambrosius Bach, German composer (d.1695)
1645–Johann Christoph Bach, German musician (d.1693)
1705–Peter Arbedi, Swedishnaturalist (d.1735)
1732–George Washington, firstPresident of the United States (d.1799)
1756–Georg Friedrich von Martens, Germandiplomat (d.1821)
1761–Erik Tulindberg, Finnish composer (d.1814)
1778–Rembrandt Peale, American painter (d.1860)
1785–Jean Peltier, Frenchphysicist (d.1845)
1788–Arthur Schopenhauer, Germanphilosopher (d.1860)
1796–Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d.1837)
1796–Adolphe Quetelet, Belgianmathematician (d.1874)
1806–Jozef Kremer, Polishphilosopher (d.1875)
1817–Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, Germanmathematician (d.1880)
1819–James Russell Lowell, Americanpoet (d.1891)
1823–Robert B. Ogilvie,Governor ofIllinois (d.1888)
1824–Pierre Janssen, Frenchastronomer (d.1907)
1836–Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, IndianSanskrit scholar and social reformer (d.1906)
1840–August Bebel, German political activist (d.1913)
1847–Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Bavaria (d.1897)
1849–Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russianmathematician (d.1915)

1851– 1900

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1857–Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, Germanphysicist (d.1894)
1857–Robert Baden-Powell, British founder of theScout movement (d.1941)
1864–Jakob Jakobsen,Faroese linguist (d.1918)
1878–Walter Ritz, Swissphysicist (d.1909)
1879–Johannes Nicolaus Bronsted, Danish physicalchemist (d.1947)
1880–Eric Lemming, Swedish athlete (d.1930)
1881–Joseph B. Ely, 52ndGovernor of Massachusetts (d.1956)
1882–Eric Gill, Britishsculptor (d.1940)
1883–Marguerite Clark, American actress (d.1940)
1887–Savielly Tartakower, Polishchess player (d.1956)
1888–Owen Brewster,Governor ofMaine (d.1961)
1889–Olave Baden-Powell, British co–founder of the Girl Guides (d.1977)
1890–Beatriz Michelena,Latin American movie actor (d.1942)
1891–Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d.1937)
1892–Edna St. Vincent Millay, Americanpoet (d.1950)
1895–Victor Raul Haya del Torre,Peruvian politician (d.1979)
1897–Karol Swierczewski, Polish general (d.1947)
1898–Thillaiaadi Valliammai, South Africanactivist (d.1914)
1899–George O'Hara, American actor (d.1966)
1900–Luis Buñuel, Spanish movie producer (d.1983)
1900–James Sisnett,Barbadian supercentenarian (d.2013)

1901– 1950

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1903–Frank Plumpton Ramsey, British mathematician (d.1930)
1906–Donald S. Russell, 107thGovernor ofSouth Carolina (d.1998)
1907–Georg Braun, Austrianfootballer (d.1963)
1907–Sheldon Leonard, American actor (d.1997)
1907–Robert Young, American actor (d.1998)
1908–Romulo Betancourt,President ofVenezuela (d.1981)
1913–Buddy Tate, American jazz musician (d.2001)
1914–Renato Dulbecco, Italianvirologist (d.2012)
1917–Jane Bowles, Americanwriter andplaywright (d.1973)
1918–Sid Abel, Canadianice hockey player (d.2000)
1918–Robert Wadlow, tallest person in history (d.1940)
1918–Don Pardo, American television and radio announcer (d.2014)
1921–Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d.1994)
1921–Sune Andersson, Swedishfootballer (d.2002)
1921–Wayne C. Booth, American literary critic (d.2005)
1921–Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of theCentral African Republic (d.1996)
1921–David Greene, British director (d.2003)
1922–Joe Wilder, Americanjazz trumpeter (d.2014)
1923–Bleddyn Williams, Welshrugby player (d.2009)
1925–Kenneth Williams, Englishactor (d.1988)
1925–Cyril Leonoff, Canadian civil engineer and historian (d.2016)
1925–Gerald Stern, Americanpoet
1927–Florencio Campomanes,Filipino chess player and official (d.2010)
1927–Gus Douglass, American politician (d.2015)
1928–Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer (d.2017)
1928–Paul Dooley, American actor
1929–James Hong, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1930–Giuliano Montaldo, Italianmovie director
1930–Bill Mitchell, Canadianice hockey player (d.2014)
1930–Marni Nixon, American singer (d.2016)
1932–Ted Kennedy,United States Senator fromMassachusetts (d.2009)
1933–Sheila Hancock, British actress
1933–Katharine, Duchess of Kent
1934–Sparky Anderson, Americanbaseball player and manager (d.2010)
1936–J. Michael Bishop, Americanbiologist
1940–Judy Cornwell, English actress
1940–Billy Name, Americanphotographer and filmmaker (d.2016)
1940–Chet Walker, Americanbasketball player
1941–Hipolito Mejia, formerPresident of theDominican Republic
1942–Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl (d.2017)
1943–Horst Koehler, formerPresident of Germany
1944–Robert Kardashian, Americanlawyer (d.2003)
1944–Jonathan Demme, Americanmovie producer andscreenwriter (d.2017)
1944–Tom Okker, Dutchtennis player
1945–Leslie Charleson, English actress
1946–Kresten Bjerre, Danishfootballer (d.2014)
1947–Maurizio De Angelis, Italian singer
1949–Olga Morozova, Russiantennis player
1949–Niki Lauda, Austrian racing driver
1950–Julie Walters, British actress
1950–Julius Erving, Americanbasketball player
1950–Miou-Miou, Frenchactress

1951– 1975

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1951–Ellen Greene, American singer and actress
1952–Bill Frist,United States Senator
1952–Bernard Silverman, English minister, statistician and academic
1953–Nigel Planer, English actor
1955–David Axelrod, American political advisor
1956–Philip Kerr, British author (d.2018)
1958–Dave Spitz, American musician
1959–Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
1961–Akira Takahashi, Japaneseguitarist
1962–Steve Irwin, Australian wildlife expert and TV personality (d.2006)
1963–Vijay Singh,Fijian golfer
1963–Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, British politician
1963–Devon Malcolm, Englishcricketer
1964–Gigi Fernandez, Puerto Ricantennis player
1965–Chris Dudley, Americanbasketball player
1965–Pat Lafontaine, Americanice hockey player
1965–Kieren Fallon, Irishjockey
1968–Shawn Graham, Canadian politician, 31stPremier of New Brunswick
1968–Jayson Williams, Americanbasketball player
1969–Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer
1969–Marc Wilmots, Belgian footballer
1969–Clinton Kelly, Americantelevision personality
1972–Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater
1973–Philippe Gaumont, French cyclist (d.2013)
1973–Claus Lundekvam, Norwegianfootballer
1973–Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
1973–Archil Arveladze,Georgian footballer
1973–Shota Arveladze,Georgian footballer
1974–Chris Moyles, British radio presenter
1974–Markus Schopp, Austrian footballer
1974–James Blunt, British singer
1975–Drew Barrymore, American actress

From 1976

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1977–Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer
1978–Jenny Frost, British singer (Atomic Kitten), TV presenter (Snog Marry Avoid?) and model
1979–Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
1979–Lee Na-young, South Korean actress
1980–Jeanette Biedermann, Germansinger andactress
1983–Shaun Tait, Australiancricketer
1983–Ragna Ingolfsdottir,Icelandic badminton player
1984–Tommy Bowe, Irishrugby player
1984–Branislav Ivanovic, Serbianfootballer
1985–Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
1985–Ross Hutchins, Britishtennis player
1985–Larissa Riquelme,Paraguayan model
1986–Rajon Rondo, Americanbasketball player
1987–Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress and model
1987–Sergio Romero, Argentine footballer
1987–Enzo Pérez, Argentine footballer
1988–Efrain Juarez, Mexican footballer
1988–Ximena Navarrete, Mexican model and actress
1989–Anna Sundstrand, Swedish singer
1991–Robin Stjernberg, Swedish singer

Deaths

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Up to 1900

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556–Maximilianus of Ravenna, Italianbishop (b.499)
606–Pope Sabinian
965–Otto, Duke of Burgundy (b.944)
1071–Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (b.1055)
1111–Roger Borsa,King ofSicily
1371– KingDavid II of Scotland (b.1324)
1512–Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (b.1451)
1627–Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b.1558)
1674–Jean Chapelain, French writer (b.1595)
1690–Charles Le Brun, French painter (b.1619)
1727–Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (b.1661)
1731–Frederik Ruysch, Dutchphysician andanatomist (b.1638)
1732–Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b.1663)
1750–Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Italian composer (b.1679)
1797–Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Munchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b.1720)
1799–Heshen, Chinese official (b.1750)
1816–Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher (b.1723)
1819–Thomas Johnson,Governor ofMaryland (b.1752)
1875–Charles Lyell, British geologist (b.1797)
1875–Jean-Baptiste Corot, French painter (b.1796)
1890–John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b.1822)
1897–Charles Blondin, Frenchtightrope walker (b.1824)
1898–Haungseon Daewongun, Korean king (b.1820)

1901– 2000

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1903–Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b.1860)
1913–Francisco I. Madero,President ofMexico (b.1873)
1914–Thillaiaadi Valliammai, South Africanactivist (b.1898)
1919–Perito Moreno, Argentine geographer and explorer (b.1852)
1921–Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah,Emir ofKuwait (b.1864)
1923–Théophile Delcasse, Frenchstatesman (b.1852)
1927–Judson Harmon,Governor ofOhio (b.1846)
1930–William Jeremiah Tuttle, American freestyle swimmer andwater polo (b.1882)
1934–Willem Kes, Dutchconductor (b.1856)
1939–Antonio Machado, Spanish writer (b.1875)
1942–Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (b.1881)
1943–White Rose Resistance Activists executed:
- Christoph Probst, German resistance activist (b.1919)
- Hans Scholl, German resistance activist (b.1918)
- Sophie Scholl, German resistance activist (b.1921)
1944–Kasturba Gandhi, wife ofMahatma Gandhi (b.1869)
1945–Osip Brik, Russian author and critic (b.1888)
1958–Abul Kalam Azad, Indian independence movement leader (b.1888)
1961–Nick LaRocca, Americanjazz musician (b.1889)
1970–Edward Selzer, Americanmovie producer (b.1893)
1973–Jean-Jacques Bertrand,Premier of Quebec (b.1916)
1973–Winthrop Rockefeller, American politician, 37thGovernor ofArkansas (b.1912)
1974–Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin ofRichard Nixon (b.1930)
1976–Florence Ballard, American singer (b.1943)
1980–Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter (b.1886)
1985–Efrem Zimbalist, American violinist and composer (b.1889)
1987–Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (b.1928)
1989–Moises da Costa Amaral,East Timorese politician (b.1938)
1994–Papa John Creach, American musician (b.1917)
1995–Ed Flanders, American actor (b.1934)
1998–Donald S. Russell, 107thGovernor ofSouth Carolina (b.1906)
1998–Abraham A. Ribicoff, 80thGovernor ofConnecticut (b.1910)

From 2001

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2002–Roden Cutler, 32ndGovernor ofNew South Wales (b.1916)
2002–Chuck Jones, American cartoonist (b.1912)
2002–Jonas Savimbi, Angolan politician and rebel leader (b.1934)
2002–Daniel Pearl, Americanjournalist (b.1963)
2004–Roqué Maspoli,Uruguayan footballer (b.1917)
2005–Simone Simon, French actress (b.1910)
2012–Marie Colvin, American journalist (b.1956)
2012–Rémi Ochlik, French photojournalist (b.1983)
2013–Hasse Jeppson, Swedishfootballer (b.1925)
2013–Wolfgang Sawallisch, Germanpianist andconductor (b.1923)
2014–Charlotte Dawson, New Zealand–born Australiantelevision personality (b.1966)
2014–Leo Vroman, Dutch–American hematologist,poet and illustrator (b.1915)
2015–Kim Kyung-roul, South Koreanbilliards player (b.1980)
2016–Wesley A. Clark, Americancomputer engineer (b.1927)
2016–Sonny James, American countrysinger-songwriter (b.1929)
2016–Hans Reffert, German musician (b.1946)
2016–Douglas Slocombe, Englishcinematographer (b.1913)
2016–Yochanan Sofer, Hungarian–Israelirabbi (b.1922)
2016–Cara McCollum, Americanjournalist and beauty queen (b.1992)
2016–Cristiana Corsi, Italiantaekwondo martial artist (b.1976)
2016–Yolande Fox, American beauty queen, singer and activist (b.1928)
2017–Frank Delaney, Irish author (b.1942)
2017–Ricardo Dominguez, Mexican boxer (b.1985)
2017–Eni Faleomavaega,American Samoan politician (b.1943)
2017–Aleksei Petrenko, Russian actor (b.1938)
2017–Ed Garvey, American lawyer and politician (b.1940)
2017–John McCormack, Canadianice hockey player (b.1925)
2018–Nanette Fabray, American actress and dancer (b.1920)
2018–Forges, Spanish cartoonist (b.1942)
2018–Richard E. Taylor, Canadianphysicist (b.1929)

Observances

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Independence Day (Saint Lucia)
World Thinking Day (Girl Scouts)
Founder's Day (Scout Movement)

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